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Jain polymath Acharya Hemchandra, the grammarian of Maharashtri Prakrit, played a significant role in the preservation and study of Maharashtri Prakrit. In his grammatical treatise, the Siddha-Hema-Sabdanusasana, Hemachandra systematically described and laid down rules for several Middle Indo-Aryan languages, including Maharashtri Prakrit, which was one of the principal literary Prakrits of ancient India. His work remain the most important source for modern scholars studying the

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